DAs, judges, and juries. Juries are citizen who want perfect CSI DNA evidence and a kingpin to be dealing on a corner with eye witness testimony. Juries or the people of Baltimore don’t want convictions.

Bet they think their better than me.

I know city contractors owed over a million dollars all in relatively small repair bills. The bills are over 12 months overdue.

Yup, corrected. Don’t know why I wrote Walker.

Lake Roland has a 5 mile up and back from the light rail parking lot to Falls.

Lot to Boardwalk, up hill around circle to trail down to light rail tracks. Trail runs next to reservoir to Falls road. Mostly wooded except for park.

You’ll 100% get a speeding ticket or a running red light from the cameras. If you have a daily commute and they add a camera and you’re unaware (like on Charles by the Cathedral of Mary our Queen) then you could get several tickets before the 1st one is mailed.

You can look up your tag on the BaltimoreCity.gov website.

I'd totally crack and beer and say "mmm-hmmm" while looking at that shed.

Beautiful job. So much space for activities. Must of felt nice.

I use Roland Ave all the time and its fine, but its not ideal. If you're doing a design, do it best. The best is a protected bike lane, like Maryland Ave/Cathedral St. The bike lane is on the inside of the street against the curb. Pedestrians use the sidewalk. Cars park in between the bike lane and the flow of traffic. Traffic flows and there is a buffer between cyclists and cars.

Here's a design: https://nacto.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/NACTO-Design-Guide-Burchfield-Chicago.pdf

I drive somedays, but when I can I ride my bike because of the convenience of North South bicycle corridor in Baltimore. The design encouraged my bicycle purchase. I hope it encourages others.

Almost all of the city's poor efforts to provide services can be traced to by the Department of Finance Procurement Division and the Bureau of Accounting and Payroll Services. We can't buy things and we can't pay our bills. The city is broken. No vendors want to work with the city agencies. The city can't function because it doesn't have supplies, services, or real time procurement.

We could solve it be throwing bodies at the problem: Mass hire hundreds of people for a six month contract until the backlog is at zero on both sides of the problem. Then figure out how many people are needed to meet equilibrium.

Also, it is difficult to restore the full faith and credit of the city. There are only a few suppliers of certain city services where specifications were already established. For example: if the city establishes specifications that they only use a specific type of light pole from a single vendor, then that nationwide vendor only has one local distributor, then Baltimore City owes that one vendor $300,000 in unpaid bills, then Baltimore City can't order light poles until it pays it's outstanding bill. Also the two departments mentioned don't talk to each other. Additionally, Baltimore City will burn the vendors that are on a blanket contract and they city will have no supplier for that service. Vendors are often owed over $1,000,000+ and then refuse to accept any additional work in the city.

Traffic sign poles are sort of universal, but we could have cause some stupid error by not sourcing properly.

Also Baltimore City has minority business and women owned business requirements for most contracts over $300,000. So if Baltimore City has a contract to supply $500,000 of sign poles, the MBE/WBE office wants you to have 15% of that contract go to a subcontractor that is a MBE and 11% that is a WBE, so roughly 26% of your contract. All you do is supply sign poles, now you have to find another company to somehow take 26% of that contract and often if makes no sense. They want you to add a waiver or add garbage hauling to that contract by a MBE/WBE. There's roughly one person in the WBE/MBE office and they'll kick good vendors for not meeting the MBE/WBE requirement of their contract.

The city is broken. A mayor or city administrator that could get it to pay it's bills and buy things quickly would be the best thing since Willy Don Schaffer.

fantastic citation

I smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins. It was Johnny Hopkins and Sloan Kettering and they were blazing that shit up every day.

I think you're talking about here: https://goo.gl/maps/faiPGXwLtMTNDLSd6

Illegal in the city

Deer in Druid Hill Park are a big problem around the Zoo and around the community garden. You'll see them anytime, but in the evening they are most active. The Zoo wants to allow hunting because the wild animals shouldn't be near the zoo animals for fear of bringing in disease and upsetting the animals. The community garden has their vegetables eaten by the deer. If you drive at night though the park you should see them.